Patrick Kun | The Wild Magic of Sleight of Hand | Topic

[dramatic music] – When I was in kindergarten, during nap time I was really bored and I wanted to impress my friends. So I start to fumble around the bed, and I found a little bolt under the chair. Took it out and said, “Watch this. I will make this bolt disappear.” Started putting the nut on my nose. I said, “Look. It’s vanished.” All my friends are amazed. Teacher came by to me was like, “Patrick, what are you doing?”. And she noticed there’s a
silver thing in my nose. My nose is bleeding. She called my parents. My parents came to me, rushed me to the hospital. I remember this is when I
was four or five years old, and I still remember this. You know I got strapped on the bed cause I was crying so hard, and a doctor has to get it surgically removed out from my nose. So, that was my first magic trick. [dramatic music] I started magic with a pack of cards. And I started to learn all the sleights and I fell in love with all the move and the sleight of hand that makes things, like, feel magical. [dramatic music] I like to practice things, and for me its never…l
I never fee like I’m practicing. It’s more like I feel relaxed
when I practice. You know? It kinda makes me focus. [music continues] When people think that my magic is done in post-production, I kinda take that as a compliment because that’s means I
have done my job right. You know? I make them believe
that it was so good that it has to be a camera cut. I like to say what if I could. Then how could I do it? For example, if I really have magic power, I won’t be opening the
can like this, right? I would use my magic power and the can would just open by itself. If I really had the power, my life would be much easier, right? I can turn around, my clothes would change. I could snap my finger, my money would multiply. I could snap my finger, things would disappear. And obviously the magic isn’t real, but our job is to make it
look as real as possible and make people believe
for a short amount of time. (money shuffling)